Prindiville v. Jackson

Citations

• 79 Ill. 337

Syllabus

<p>1. City water works—a city may require citizens to repay cost of service pipe laid by it, before permitting its use by them. A regulation of a board of public works of a city, which requires citizens desiring to use the water of the city flowing through the main pipes, to lay down at their own expense the necessary service pipe from their lots to the main pipes, is but just and reasonable, and in accordance with the principle upon which special assessments on account of special benefits are founded.</p> <p>2. And where such a regulation exists, the fact that the city, at the time of laying the main pipes, and for the purpose of avoiding tearing up the paving of the street in future, lays service pipe from the main pipe to the lots abutting on the .street, does not entitle any citizen to the free and unrestrained use of them, and the city has the. right to require lot. owners, wishing to use such service pipe, to refund to the city the cost of laying it, before they can do so.</p>